If I REALLY wanted to boost insane amounts of air... I'd use a fast kite like an X2 and get the slowest board with the sharpest edge I could find. This would enable me to go out in radically overpowered conditions and still hold the edge.

Then when the kite is flicked backwards... a faster kite generally speaking has more lift than a slower kite.. you get a double whammy effect.

all this talk about a fast board needing a fast kite? I used a Wipika Classic (I think thats classified as slow) with a superflat, fast wakeboard, and it worked very well!

Blownaway, to get big jumps with any kite inc X2, you still need lots of speed, if you go slow, sure it'll be a jump, and maybe bigger than when you are in less wind, but it won't be as big as if you went fast....

If a slow board gave you big jumps, why don't we use banana rockered boards 6cm + rocker.. that'll slow it down!!

no, I have it now, and it's going to be stripped and reglassed into a 155cm x 45cm 3 inch fat tray for light wind duty. The rocker should be good, and with some sharper edges than it has at the moment, I'll be able to sine a kite like I'm standing on the fricken beach :-0 !! I'll make sure it has only 2cm of rocker too + flipped up tips with separation edges....

Well, I got the small heel fin(s) off.
And I cannot really feel a big difference.

I also removed a big fin and replaced it by the smaller heel fin and still no big difference except that backleg pressure got a lot less. I like the backleg pressure so I put the fins back.

I will probably try the smaller 2003 fins(1.5" instead of 2").

PS I tried the Zeppelin yesterday and damn that's also a very sweet board. Maybe i'll swapp my Drake for a Zeppelin and get a bigger board as my second board. I noticed that the Zeppelin only needs a little extra wind to get going compared to the Drake. I still think about my "old" Olry 186. That boards needs sooo little wind.
So more difficult time to figure out what to get as my second="bigger" board.

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